RE: [Xen-devel] Re: APIC rework

["Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 11/16/09 19:45, Keir Fraser wrote:
>> It's kind of a shame to need this though. Is there no way for the
>> hypervisor to work out automatically whether an older dom0 is
>> running? Or work out the trigger/level stuff for itself (after all
>> it parses the relevant bios tables just like dom0)?
> 
> If Xen can set the interrupt triggering by itself, why would it ever
> need dom0 to do it?  Couldn't it just preconfigure all the pins, and
> then wait for dom0 to provide/request the pirq<->evtchn mapping?


After reviewing the logic, I think we can use DOMID_SELF to identify new dom0.  
In linux-2.6.18 dom0, only qemu uses this hypercall for device assginment, so 
map->domid shouldn't be dom0.  If old dom0/qemu with this hypercall, keeps the 
logic unchanged, and only change the logic for new dom0 when call into it.   
Attached the patch. 
Xiantao

Attachment: fix-compatibility-issue-about-physdev_map_pirq.patch
Description: fix-compatibility-issue-about-physdev_map_pirq.patch

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